I saw the news this morning, and saw the news report on the Good Samaritan in New York that prevented the robbery of a woman on the street, the Samaritan was stabbed and left to die on the sidewalk.
What kind of world are we living in that we don't even stop to make a phone call for assistance? Is that even human to see someone injured and not feel compelled to offer some form of help? I could only imagine how these bystanders would feel if the person laying on the ground was someone that they loved. Could this man's life have been saved if only one person had made a 3 digit phone call...9 1 1? What happened to the woman he helped? Didn't she think she owed the man at least a phone call to the authorities? He saved her purse, possibly her life, couldn't she at least have done the same? The worse for me were those that passed by and snapped pictures on their cell phones but thought that it was too much work to make an actual phone call.
This is not the first incident of such thoughtless behavior, just the most recent in a series that should cause us all to stop and reevaluate ourselves. We have become such a selfish, self-centered society that if it has no immediate affect on us that we step back & do nothing. We say someone else is going to help. We have to act, we have to help one another. If not me then who, if not now then when? Come on people we need to put the “human” back into “humanity”!!
"All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men do nothing." - Edmund Burke
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